Rosneft Holds Talks With DSME

June 16, 2014

Rosneft’s President Igor Sechin held talks with CEO of DSME Jae-ho Ko on 15th of June.

“The parties discussed the progress of the project on establishment of a shipbuilding cluster in the Far East of Russia implementation. In particular, the proposal of Rosneft to form a single site for all shipbuilding contracts of Russian customers on the basis of OJSC Far Eastern Center of Shipbuilding. Earlier, in the frames of meeting of the Presidential Commission on strategy of development of fuel and energy complex and environmental security Vladimir Putin supported the proposal of Rosneft,” Rosneft said in a statement.

In November 2013 Rosneft and OJSC Gazprombank, Sovcomflot and DSME signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the frames of which an agreement on joint completion of construction and launch of shipbuilding complex “Zvezda” in 2016, establishment of a Russian-Korean engineering center for shipbuilding and marine engineering for offshore projects was concluded, as well as basic conditions of localization and technologies transfer and orders placement were documented.